So in layman's terms, the treasury is loaning money to investment firms to put into the stock market ????
Borrowing costs keep rising for banks and hedge funds, and the Fed keeps pumping money into the system in order to ease stress. The good news is that the cost increases are not being seen outside of the stock market. For instance mortgage rates are still low, as are loan rates for other things that normal non-rich people use. But bad news is that no one knows how long this is going to continue or what's truly causing it. People in the financial industry/banks are blaming Dodd-Frank, which forces banks to keep a decent amounts of assets on paper in order to prevent the type of fukkery that happened in 07 when multiple institutions effectively ran out of money. Banks hate the regulation and have been trying to get around it for years.
Some argue the deficit is impacting all this.
Regardless one thing is sure: shyt isn't going in the right direction and the only question is whether this spills out into the "real" economy and impacts regular people. With fears of a recession on the horizon and trade wars going wrong, this is the worst time for uncertainty. Only question is whether it blows up now or later.